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Pocket.

; No. 234,487. Patented Nov. 16,1880.

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SOLMS MARCUS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY N. HART, OF SAME PLACE.

POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,487, dated November 16, 1880.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SOLMS MARCUS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pockets for i Vearing- Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is to produce a pocket having a covering-flap adapted for use upon coats or jackets, vests, pants, or overalls, which will be cheap and simple and exceedingly strong in construction.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction of the pocket, and in the manner of attaching it to the garment, all as more fully hereinafter explained, and pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a view of the pocket attached to agarment with the flap thrown up to disclose the mouth of the pocket; Fig. 2, a similar view of the pocket when closed; and Fig. 3, a vertical section through the center of the pocket with the flap thrown up and through the cloth of the garment, the stitches being indicated for clearness by projecting points.

A is the cloth of the garment to which the pocket is secured.

The pocket is composed of two pieces of cloth, B C, both out the same width, but the latter or inner piece being only about onehalf or two-thirds as long as the outer piece, though it may be made of the same length as the outer piece. The two pieces of cloth B C are laid together and an elliptical hole, D, made through them above their center, which hole forms the mouth of the pocket. The edges of the two pieces of cloth are doubled together around the mouth D and sewed by one or two lines of stitching, a. Theoutside edges ofthe pieces B and C are doubled together and sewed by stitching I) wholly above the mouth of the pocket. The pieces thus sewed together are laid against the outside of the cloth Aofthe garment, and are sewed thereto bylines of stitching 0, extending from a point just above the mouth D on one side around the bottom of the pocket and to a similar point above the mouth on the other side. This stitching also secures the pieces B and C together. For additional strength short lines of stitching cl are run from the edges of the pocket opposite the sides of the mouth D to the edges of such month. Above the mouth D the pieces B and C are further secured to the cloth A by one or two horizontal lines of stitching, 0.

The pieces B C above the stitching e arewholly detached from the cloth A, and are pressed down over the mouth D to form a covering-flap, E. This flap is integral with the pieces forming the pocket, and, being double, shows the finished side of the cloth, whether up or down, and is heavy and stiff enough to lie smooth over the mouth of the pocket.

The pieces forming the pocket extending entire and in one piece wholly around the mouth of the pocket, a very strong pocket is formed, which has no seams to rip out or corners that have to be re-enforced. The two thicknesses being turned in at the edges around the mouth of the pocket, four thicknesses of cloth are presented at the edge of the pocket-opening, making a pocket that cannot be torn from place without carrying with it the cloth of the garment to which it is secured.

This pocket being attached wholly upon the outside of the cloth A, no cutting of the garment is required.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A pocket composed of the body fabric A and facing-piece B, the latter having a cut through it to form the pocket-opening and an extension at its upper end to form the flap E, all constructed and arranged substantially as described.

2. The pocket for garments, made of two pieces of cloth, B and C, having the mouth D, formed by cutting a hole through such pieces and sewed to the garment A, so as to form the flap E, substantially as described and shown.

3. The pocket composed of pieces B C, having opening D, and extended above said opening to form flap E, and secured to the garment A around the sides and bottom of the pocket by stitching 0, above the pocket by stitching c, and at the sides of the pocket by stitching cl, constructed substantially as described and shown.

SOLMS MARCUS. Witnesses WM. RoT'rHoFF, EMIL H. FROMMANN. 

